kat ๐ŸŒป

AI Luddite. Extremely online since 1994. Solidarity forever.

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kat ๐ŸŒป boosted:
Electronic Frontier Foundationeff
2025-12-18

Drones are essentially flying police officers. โ€œIf Iโ€™m in my backyard, if Iโ€™m on my deck, do I expect that I have to encounter a law enforcement camera? I shouldnโ€™t have to,โ€ EFFโ€™s Beryl Lipton told @TexasObserver. texasobserver.org/texas-dps-dr

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1. The federal government has just attempted to enact a national trans youth care ban. A new HHS rule would shutter most gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. It violates multiple laws and the constitution, and will likely go into effect in a few months. Our latest story here:

Nationwide Trans Youth Care Ba...

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๐šƒ๐šŠ๐š›๐šŠ๐šœ ๐™ถ๐š›๐šŽ๐šœ๐šŒ๐š˜๐šŽ ๐Ÿš‡straphanger@urbanists.social
2025-12-02

#Montreal was rated #1 bicycle city in North America this year.

But the party that won the municipal election in November campaigned on auditing and removing bike lanes.

Theyโ€™ve already started in my borough, #Outremont.

So we made our own bike lane this morning. We want, and need, to keep our kids activeโ€”and safe.

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1. New Zealand doctors are officially suing to reverse the country's ban on puberty blockers for gender affirming care. โ€œThese regulations are being enacted based on politics, not on clinical evidence." Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/were-takin...

โ€œWeโ€™re taking this to courtโ€: ...

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Annalee Newitz ๐Ÿœannaleen@wandering.shop
2025-12-02

In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older and Karen Lord -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! Grab one now!
simonandschuster.com/books/We-

This is a picture of the book cover, which is an abstract looking planet in orange, green, and purple. "We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays On Protest, Resistance, and Hope. Edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older." Below that, it reads: Available Now from Saga Press
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Gordon J Holtslanderpinhman@mstdn.ca
2025-12-02

Assembly of First Nations receive unanimous support on resolution to uphold oil tanker ban.

Carney will speak to them later today. Expect some very hard questions
#cdnpoli
cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.700

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Julie Webgirl - Just Your Luckjustyourluck@masto.ai
2025-12-02

Bad year for the #Flu

The #H3N2 #SubcladeK has mutations that may evade the immunity that the #FluVaccine gives

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ The US has reported the strain in 20 states

๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan has declared an #InfluenzaEpidemic

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain has recommended #Mask mandates

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง UK is "facing it's worst winter yet"

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada issued a warning about the vaccine mismatch

When you see warnings for people w/ immunity, cardiac, lung, etc. issues, remember if you've ever had #Covid, that's probably you.

#MaskUP & Stay Safe! ๐Ÿ˜ท๐Ÿซถ

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2025-12-02

"Mark Carney, the central banker, was the thought leader the climate movement needed: someone who could translate the reality of climate change into the language of finance. As prime minister, he is torching the countryโ€™s climate policies, while pouring government time and resources into new fossil fuel infrastructure. To state the obvious, these are not the decisions of a climate champion."

Did the climate world misread Carney? | Canada's National Observer: Climate News
nationalobserver.com/2025/12/0

archive.ph/XFOQ6

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Cat Hicksgrimalkina
2025-12-02

I have a December gift for you all ๐ŸŽ

I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!

I am able to select a handful of folks to receive a free advance copy, and I would love to ensure this group represents a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

You can indicate your interest here. And you are welcome to share this form:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

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2025-12-02

The next time someone says "Privacy doesn't matter to me, I've got nothing to hide", show them this video.

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Jason Lefkowitz is exhaustedjalefkowit@vmst.io
2025-12-02

"A political movement that dreams of a world that is smaller, simpler, dumber, more servile and less curious would naturally fixate upon college campuses and the acts of becoming that happen there; people in that movement would want, so intensely that it would come to crowd out any other wish or purpose, the opportunity to make that all stop. They would, as always, want to smash whatever they want to smash and enjoy the security of knowing not just that they would face no repercussions, but be the hero of the story for having done so."

defector.com/the-conservative-

#USPol

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Timnit Gebru (she/her).timnitGebru@dair-community.social
2025-12-02

There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.

rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

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Greg Wilsongvwilson
2025-12-02

More than a million people in Ontario needed to use food banks last year: cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-w This is the ninth straight year of increases.

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2025-12-02

"As the world's most beautiful hummingbird, I have posed for you, and it is now your duty to take my photo"-- a modest & unassuming male Blue-throated Starfrontlet

#Hummingbird #Bird #Birding #Photography #BirdPhotography #Nature #Outdoors #Colombia #PhotoMonday

A dark hummingbird with incredible flash is sitting erect where he can catch the sunlight to best show off his iridescent colors-- blue on his forecrown, purple on the throat, green bib, fuchsia belly. This is the famous Blue-throated Starfrontlet male.  El Bosque Guijira Reserve, Colombia. Nov 2025. Photo by Peachfront.
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Heidi Li Feldmanheidilifeldman
2025-12-02

Catching up on Ruben Gallegoโ€™s most-recently publicized misogynist, anti-trans texts and, more importantly, his own characterization of them. arizonadailyindependent.com/20

Gallego casts his blatant bigotry and hatred as as being in service to an inclusive, โ€œbig tentโ€ vision of the Democratic Party.

A disingenuous and pragmatically unpromising approach. 1/

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2025-12-02

just called ai "the mediocrity machine" in a meeting and the tech bro is shaking a finger at me and twitching so hard he can't even plug what's happening into the machine so it can tell him how to respond

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George Takei :verified: ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿฝgeorgetakei@universeodon.com
2025-12-02

What a bunch of shady creepers.

A tweet by Jamie Bonkiewicz reads, โ€œThis photo is the reason women cover their drinks.โ€ Below it is a photo of three men in suits standing in a room with military personnel behind them. The man in the center gestures with both hands, while the other two stand with serious expressions.
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Prof. Sam Lawlersundogplanets
2025-12-02

Just need to scream a little bit about how there are actually hard limits to how much stuff we can have in orbit without severe consequences! It's ok to say that out loud, even if the techbros don't want to hear it!

It's ok (and vitally important) to have in your list of recommendations for satellites operators "Don't launch so many satellites." This is really pretty key to not destroying the night sky, LEO, and/or the atmosphere.

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2025-12-02

Red pandas are called that because theyโ€™re communists.

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